Finally, Element 112 is now Copernicium (Cn), named for the astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the universe.
Mr. MERRITT: (Singing) ...in the rain to bring you candy, and John would buy the gown for you to wear to the prom, with Tom(ph) the astronomer who named a star for you.
Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them.
"In some sense, this is all academic, because we have been broadcasting to aliens for decades, " says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Instead, astronomers are now faced with vast quantities of data. (The Hubble Space Telescope alone churns out 2 billion bytes per day.) Traditionally, observations remain the exclusive property of the astronomer who made them for one year.
Even though the suite of instruments for the E-ELT has yet to be finalized, ESO astronomer Joe Liske says the telescope will make observing time for cosmology, nearby galaxies, solar system studies and the burgeoning list of planets now known to circle other stars.
Eclipse glasses, dark welder's goggles or an astronomer's filter made for sun viewing are recommended if people want to look skyward.
She tells us, for instance, that the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler was a quiet, introspective fantasizer whose mind moved by leaps of intuition.
"It's no exaggeration to say that Patrick, in his tireless and ebullient communication of the magic of astronomy, inspired every British astronomer, amateur and professional, for half a century, " said Queen guitarist Brian May, who holds a PhD in astrophysics.
Observing the asteroid wasn't easy, said David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
Mr. MICHAEL ROWAN-ROBINSON (Astronomer): It would be disastrous for astronomy if we come away from the general assembly with nothing.
And six months later, somewhere between talking stars with an astronomer in the Grand Canyon and almost getting arrested for plastering poems on lamp posts in my city at 2 am, I felt better.
An Egyptian astronomer would have held up a plumb line and waited for the night sky to slowly pivot around the unmarked pole as the Earth rotated.
At the top of the entry stairs stands a massive gilt astronomer's clock made by the great French horologer Detouche for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855.
Dan Kiselman, a Swedish astronomer, will use a telescope in the Canary Islands to look for carbon dioxide.
In these pages, astronomer Giovanni Valsecchi explains why it is so important to patrol the skies for cosmic hazards, particularly now that we have the technology to do something about it, should an asteroid ever start on a collision course with Earth.
Bob Mizon, an astronomer and campaigner against light pollution, thinks that Britons have lived with excessive illumination for so long that few notice its harmful effects.
In choosing a name along these hellish lines for P4, the IAU nomenclature committee will try to honor the wishes of its discoverer: planetary astronomer Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in California.
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